If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.
We have very substantial weaknesses, including all vital infrastructures.
When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.
I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. . .
Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
Civility is not a sign of weakness.
The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness.
Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.
Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it.
To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
Waiting times are growing times and learning times. As you quiet your heart, you enter His peace. . . as you sense your weakness, you receive His strength. . . as you lay down your will, you hear His calling.